History's Living Voices: The Past, Told by Those Who Lived It

Young English Soldier Recounts BRUTAL Direct Account of Battle of Waterloo (1815, William Lawrence)

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Napoleon Justifies His Disastrous Invasion of Russia (1812) // From His Personal Diaries and Correspondence

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Contemporary Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History

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First-Hand Accounts of Civilizations Being Annihilated

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Extraordinary Narratives From History of UFO Sightings (74 BC - 1896) // Primary Sources

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Last Rites: Ceremonies of Death and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- Extracts taken from: Plutarch on Lucullus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046 Illustrated news notice of Nuremberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg History of New England by John Winthrop https://archive.org/details/winthropsjourna05hosmgoog Toen shōsetsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune The San Francisco call. [volume], November 22, 1896, Page 13, Image 13 https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-11-22/ed-1/seq-13/ Art by Bilalerlangga. Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist Stock footage from Videoblocks Image Credits: Skull By Wapondaponda - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6944772 00:00 74 BC The Mithridatic Wars 02:02 1561 Nuremberg 04:30 1639 Massachusetts 05:26 1803 Edo Japan 09:08 1896 Oakland, California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]